冯梦龙 (Féng Mènglóng) · Feng Menglong, late Ming writer and…

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1 Feng Menglong, late Ming writer and compiler of vernacular stories

About Feng Menglong

1574–1646 · 作家 writer

Ming writer who compiled the 三言, three collections of 120 vernacular stories, among them the tales of the White Snake and of 杜十娘. With 凌濛初's 二拍 they are the best-known story collections of the Ming.

Also called 犹龙、墨憨斋主人、龙子犹

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HSK 5

冯梦龙是明朝末年的文学家。

Féng Mènglóng shì Míngcháo mònián de wénxuéjiā.

Feng Menglong was a man of letters of the late Ming.

HSK 7-9

冯梦龙编了三部白话小说集，合称“三言”。

Féng Mènglóng biān le sān bù báihuà xiǎoshuōjí, héchēng " Sānyán ".

Feng Menglong compiled three collections of vernacular stories, known together as the 'Three Words'.

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Each title of the 三言 ends in 言, 'words': 《喻世明言》 instructs the world, 《警世通言》 cautions it and 《醒世恒言》 awakens it. They came out in 1620, 1624 and 1627, 40 stories apiece.

history

He also collected folk songs and jokes, and in his sixties served as a county magistrate in Fujian. He died in 1646, two years after the fall of the Ming.